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folia" is extremely abundant with me. It is ill-named, for I 

 find it with four, five, six, seven, eight, and even nine leaves. 

 The children of the poor stray into the woods in hot weather, eat 

 the black venomous seed-vessel of this Herb Paris, stagger 

 home, become narcotized, and die. 



In Lapland and in Finmark (not Finland), I find Angelica 

 Archangelica in abundance. The blanched, involuted, convo- 

 luted, undeveloped, flower-head, is much more nutty and tender 

 than the best Celery. 



Upon the whole, I consider Splachnum luteum (the flower of 

 it) the most beautiful object north of the polar circle; it inhabits 

 moist Pine-forests. 



If you care to find new and good plants (new to the British 

 botanist), I know no region half so good as Carniola; the best 

 head-quarters is the hamlet of Landohl, npar Prevaldt, twenty 

 miles due north of Trieste ; time of year. May, when the abun- 

 dance of good wild flowers is quite wonderful; there are also 

 bears and capercalzies in tolerable abundance. — G. C. O. 



Hymenophyllum tunhridgense and H. Wilsoni. 

 In Ray's 'Synopsis,' 1724, there is the following observation 

 on the above, p. 123 : — "Adiantum petraum perpusillum anglicum. 

 This was first shown to Mr. Ray by Mr. Newton, who, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Lawson, found it on Buzzard Rough Crag, near 

 Wrenose, Westmoreland, among the Moss. Mr. Dare found 

 it near Tunbridge; Dr. Richardson upon the moist rocks in 

 Wales, and near Settle, Yorkshire. It grows on the left hand 

 as soon as you enter the mountain to go to the old castle near 

 Lhanperis. Found also plentifully by Mr. Rand and Mr. 

 Sherard amongst the pebbles at Cockbush, six or seven miles 

 from Chichester, on the coast of Sussex." From the above it 

 appears that Mr. Dare first found the Tunbridge Fern, unless 

 the Westmoreland plant is the same as the Sussex one. Botanists 

 generally believe that the northern and Welsh forms are H. 

 Wilsoni, and the Sussex one H. tunhridgense. — Beta. 



The following letter, accompanied with Sole's ' Mints,' from 

 an eminent professor and demonstrator in botany to the Apothe- 

 caries' Company, -will speak for itself. Mr. Jones had previously 

 served as an assistant to the worthy apothecary of Bath, the 

 author of the work on the British Mints : — 



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